I discovered last week that science fiction and fantasy illustrator Tomislav Tikulin had done a painting titled “Long Night on Redrock” which was clearly an illustration of my story, and yesterday I received confirmation in the form of contributor copies in my mailbox.

If you’d like to see the full painting, take a look on Mr. Tikulin’s website here — it’s pretty gorgeous.

I’ve never had my name on the cover of a magazine before, let alone had my story named and illustrated on the cover. I’m over the moon! If not over the titular desert planet of Redrock. Which is in that painting. Along with my main characters. And certain other story elements. On the cover of Asimov’s. Sorry, still getting used to this!

The issue should be arriving in subscribers’ mailboxes or on their Kindles soon, and it’ll be on newsstands May 8. I’m really excited about this story, which is again a little different from most I’ve had published. Read the teaser in my original post and look for it in the July issue! On the cover!

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I can’t stand to be teased so I won’t read the teaser, but i have put May 8 in my calendar so I can visit my local (is it local?) independent newsstand in the U-District and pick me up my hot fresh copy!CONGRATULATIONS!!! So exciting. :)

Like the “Small Towns” issue of F&SF, this issue of Asimov’s will certainly jump to the front of my very long reading list! (And as you may surmise, I thought “Small Towns” should have been the cover story too—it was the best in an overall excellent issue.